Kabbalah

Kabbalah Centre

Kaeda-Juku

Kamm, William

Leader of the unorthodox Catholic cult Order of St. Charbel. Prophesied a comet would hit the earth in June, 1998. Now claims a comet will destroy the earth before the end of 1999. Kamm also believes he will be the next pope. Refers to himself as ''The Little Pebble.''

Katz, Jochen

Kawashima, Kenji

Cult expert. Professor of religious studies at Keisen University in Tokyo.

Kenji Kawashima, a professor of religious studies at Keisen University in Tokyo, said he launched an Internet home page on cult activities in 1997 after he saw an increasing number of students being recruited into what he saw as questionable groups.

Readership of his home page has grown drastically in recent months following the official crackdowns on fringe groups.

In a memo by Kilpatrick dated 1995, called "Manifestations of God's Power," Kilpatrick describes the following Toronto-type manifestations at the Brownsville Assembly of God: falling on the floor, laughter, shaking. Each manifestation is accompanied in the memo by an interpretation of its significance. For instance, "deep inner healing, preparation for ministry, prophetic shaking."

While it clear that Kilpatrick did not use the word in that sense, in light of the issues involved this is an interesting observation.

As Kilpatrick looked over his shoulder, he said his ankles slipped, his knees bowed out, and a sudden "river of the glory of God" moved between his legs. "It felt like a telephone pole," he said. "An endless telephone pole was coming through my legs and it was coming in the church." With some help from another man on the platform, Kilpatrick stepped back and listened to the sound of the "rushing mighty wind" and what he described as the "river of the glory of God" as it swept into the church. He suddenly jumped to the pulpit and screamed, "My God, church, get in! This is it! This is what we've been praying for! Get in!"

"I'm drunk, my legs is wobbly, I can barely stand up ... and I saw bodies going every which way ... just flying, going down like a hurricane coming through and pulling trees down." Kilpatrick continued, "They were just going down, flopping on benches, falling across the aisles, nobody even touched them." Before he knew it, Kilpatrick said he felt a heaviness come upon him and he fell to the floor, paralyzed, at 12:30 that afternoon. He did not get up until 4:00 that evening. He described the sensation that enveloped him before falling to the floor. "I felt like I weighed 10,000 pounds," he said, "but it wasn't a bad heavy. It felt wonderful." Following the sensation of heaviness, Kilpatrick felt a calm, peacefulness come over him and then felt some form of fluid flow from his body. He said, "It felt like fluid was dripping out of the joints in my bones." In fact, he jokingly told how he was nervous, wondering what the audience would think if they looked on the platform and saw him lying in a pool of fluid. This fluid, he said, was all the stress that was built up in him from years of the ministry. He said God drained all the stress out of him on the floor that day. Later that day at the evening service when Kilpatrick got up to introduce the speaker, he could not move. He said he could not move his head, his tongue, or any part of his body. He sat in his chair on the platform in a comatose state until two or three o'clock the next morning. This, Kilpatrick claimed, was the glory of God manifesting itself to Brownsville.

Testimony given by John Kilpatrick at Garywood Assembly of God in Hueytown, Alabama on January 20, 1997. As reported by Matt Costella, "The Brownsville/Pensacola Outpouring. Revival or Pandemonium?" Foundation Magazine, March-April, 1997.

See Also

Walter Martin's classic. First published in 1965. While some later versions were edited by Hank Hanegraaff, the current issue (recommended by Apologetics Index) is edited by Ravi Zacharias. this is still one of the leading reference works on contemporary cults.

Kliever, Lonnie

Like other cult-apologists, Lonnie Kliever attempts to discredit ex-cult members(apostates) - essentially branding them as liars. Note Mr. Kliever's own distortions with regard to apostates and the issue of brainwashing:

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The inherent unreliability of apostate testimony was also described in an expertise earlier this year by Professor Lonnie Kliever of Southern Methodist University:

"There is no denying that these dedicated and diehard opponents of the new religions present a distorted view of the new religions to the public, the academy, and the courts by virtue of their ready availability and eagerness to testify against their former religious associations and activities."

"Such apostates always act out of a scenario that vindicates themselves by shifting responsibility for their actions to the religious group. Indeed the various brainwashing scenarios so often invoked against the new religious movements have been overwhelmingly repudiated by social scientists and religious scholars as nothing more than calculated efforts to discredit the beliefs and practices of unconventional religions in the eyes of governmental agencies and public opinion. Such apostates can hardly be regarded as reliable informants by responsible journalists, scholars, or jurists."

Know Thyself as Soul Foundation

Korea

Koresh, David

The late leader of the Branch Davidians. Born Vernon Howell, he named himself David Koresh in the Spring of 1990. He was among those who died in the FBI attack on the group's buildings. He was a false prophet, a false teacher, and a polygamist. Koresh taught that he was entitled to have at least 140 wives, and that he was the rightful husband of all the women in his group - including those who are married. Surviving Branch Davidians have testitied that they considered David Koresh to be God incarnate.

Mr. Touhey pressed Mr. Doyle hard on his belief that Mr. Koresh not only spoke for God but was a physical manifestation of divinity who could claim sole rights to sex with all women in the group - even married women. At one point, Mr. Doyle acknowledged that his faith was so complete that he considered Mr. Koresh to be speaking for God, and that anything God asked him to do would not be a sin.

Krishnamurti, Jiddhu

Krishnamurti founded the Krishnamurti Foundation of America, and was once best known as the one whom Anne Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society, proclaimed as a new Christ. Krishnamurti rejected this role and began his own spiritual path

Kuwait

The Kuyper Institute for Politics is named for Dutch pastor and politician Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920). It focuses on applying biblical standards to politics, particularly House and Senate races.(...) Back issues and other studies remain posted, providing a unique timely biblical analysis of American politics. Among all the other political think tanks, The Kuyper Institute is unique in this: It alone has been created and developed to promote a distinctively Christian critique of modern politics.